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"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."

"I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship."

"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."

"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."

"When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on."
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"Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone."

"We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected."

"It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it."

"Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird."

"The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel."

"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."
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